| Show REMARKS by president BRIG naw nam YOU yoh YOUNG naj tabernacle Taberna cley clev february a Is 1562 V REPORTED BY 0 0 WATT I 1 have mave d a few items of business that I 1 wish to AP before you jou this morning and the hirst birst la is a call upon the brethren for teams to haul the blocks from little cottonwood to the te temple aple ople block the road became so muddy that tue the teams were sent home but we understand that the road is now very good this thia county pavis da vis tootie and the northern part ot ct utah counties countie 3 can forward teams in a da day and if the road again becomes bag bad th eyare not dot so far from their homes but lut what they tan easily return I 1 wish to have all the teams that can be gathered from this city and tee the adjoining nei nel neighborhoods and wards go to work dimmed immediately I 1 a at so that our stonecutters may have haye constant work some of them are from a distance and we vve do not like to have them out of 0 work th through rought want avant of rough blocks it requires a large quantity of rock for the first story of the temple tempie and we would like to complete the walls walis or of that story kad kod as aa much more as possible during the present season I 1 have another call to make upon the people BOW how which I 1 wish to go out from this place you will recollect that a adred year ear ean ago this coming tpring we sent some two hundred teams to the frontiers to bring the saints sainta to this territory we wish to send three hundred this year and they are as few as will answer to accomplish the purpose last season I 1 think there were rising of sixty teams went from this city I 1 alls alis falast that we vve make the dividend a as tre lre ve ill did eid last year and let thib this city take th the lead jaad and it ir we are not over one quarter in number we ought to be in faith and good v arks we know that the people in IA this city and in the regions round about are wealthy in cattle and you know very well that it is a against ainest my doctrine and feelings for men to scrape to getter gretter the wealth of lle ile the world and let iet it waste and do no good we wa have more stock than we well take care of we want to send some twelve hundred yoke of cattle to the th 4 states eStates for freight and people and we want to 9 bedd dedd nd some eattle eattie to sell and purchase things theare doare needed for families famili ej when crossing the v for we wish with to bring all the poor that carig tt to io the frontiers in time to come on WS abou beason season i i now I 1 have a particular request to nake of all our cap capitalists tall tali and that is ia for them to send and pi procure acure machinery to aid in supplying all our reasonable wants in manufactured articles that we may rhay have everything within ourselves for houses for goods for chattels for chariots for ribbons and for ruffles yes everything that we require to clothe ourselves with from the stockings fg on our feet to the articles worn avorn on our heads you sho who have money and other available means send and ge tsuch machinery a as 11 is really necessary for manufacturing those things that we vve require to make us comfortable it is our duty to do this and it is ia not your duty neither is it mine to send and get tenth dollars worth of ribbons I 1 it may be asked does nat br Brigham buy as aa many store good for his bis wives and children as any man in the territory of utah I 1 buy more probably I 1 bestow more according to the number f have to sustain than anyo any other therman man shall shafi I 1 say to keep peace out of the family or to keep peace in the family which Is it I 1 will leave that doryon for you to anwer anver such buying in is no part of the duty of any man in this community neither is ia it the duty of any man tabe to be a merchant in this community in the manner hat that many are and have been I 1 frequently tell the people that it is no part of my religion lonar lonor or duty to dance but it is as much a ratu patt att art ot of my jel jei religious s duty to dance as aa it la is to uy ribbons and oher other ohen useless art cles cies oe at clothing we are ate permitted to do such things because of our ignorance and the sin hin that isan is in the world because of the want vant of the knowledge possessed by heavenly beings the want of oe true knowledge concerning the earth and th thy y inhabitants thereon were it not for this ignorance fg agnor norance inee ince and darkness we should not bi bebar par boned as we live are now when we become weaned from the love of the world become humble penitent contrite in spirit and begin to love the lord A little it almost distracts us some almost go crazy at no distant period merchandising izing in imported goods will cease in ia this territory and we wear will be manu manufactured fact lre ird d b by ours ourselves e I 1 vea ves imported fabrica wili ivil not be b here baj i tuie Trie inquiry may aris aria what mat will bedone be done i with the money that will accumulate 21 for fot we have paid merchants here during eleven or twelve years past not less than from six to ten hundred thousand dollars annually if any should be fearful that they will be cumbered cambered cumb ered with surplus means I 1 will promise them to provide a way ay in which they may expend their means for the up building of the king kingdom dom of 0 god I 1 do not f eer feh to find fault complain or cast reflections upon myself upon my family or upon my brethren and sis bisers ers for what we vve have hitherto done and still are doing in the capacity of merchants or purchasers or consumers I 1 look forward to the time when this people will possess what is called the wealth of e the earth that is those articles which are accounted very valuable but many of aich which are in reality of 0 very little worth the diamond is considered of the most value still its intrinsic value is but trifling by heat it can be burned like other coal I 1 esteem gold as more valuable for it cannot be consumed by fire we would like to have a little of this metal for how bow much better would it be to drink out of a gold cup than out of an old rusty tin basin we expect to have earthen ware it is true when whenn we get men here that know how to put the material together to make it but if you accident accidentally accidentally all ail v let a piece of fine expensive earthen ware drop it breaks and that is the end of it should a child or a grown person make a misstep and fall when carr carrying ing a gold or silver cup or vessel it cannot be e 1 broken but this will be hereafter it is not yet when we see the time that the people will possess the true rue riches of the earth and the heavens we can preserve that which we ave have it will avill not be stolen by thieves A apparently ap pp bently the merchandising izing interest in tb this I 1 corn community is coming to a close and I 1 feel like ur urging ing upon the people the lecessi y of preparing to grow and manufacture that which they consume it is my indispensable duty to urge this important item upon them and to warn them of coming evil to themselves unless they attend to it we want in view of this a liberal turn out of teams to bring machinery from the east this coming summer it may be asaf d what we need liere here why are your wives unable to card a little litle wool into rolls to spin and knit you and your children some stockings because they have no cards suppose there was not a carding machine in this territory or a single par of hand cards and they were not to be bad how bow could we vve make ours ourselves elves comfortable without them we might possibly mana maha manage manae e to make cloth in a ru rude deway way but the deman demand li would be far beyond the supply it could not possibly kee dee keep pace with the wants of our growing community inu ing ty we need a card making makin inac machine ine lne here one that will draw the wire perforate the leathe ieather leather and cut bend and insert the teeth we could make one here but it would louid could cost much lauch mora aora than to import one of the brethren to send benl and get one or more machines of this kind for we vve do not need man many but when we vve come to cotton and woollen I 1 kv fabrics brics that we need to weal every day and without which whick we can not be so comfortable as we now are we vve need much machinery to manufacture them we vve now dow need twenty times more ca din did ding V machines in this territory tharl we have wo wool wooi 01 now lies iles in the mill monh after month before begore it can be carded which injures it will our capitalists send and bring in carding machines macau nes and aad other Inachin machinery ery try I 1 want to see fifty or one hundred cotton spinning jennies introduced into the cob coh country they will cost about one hundred dollars each anawich and ana with one of them a child twelve or fifteen years old can ina day gin card and spin cotton enough to make rake twelve yards of cloth these are matters that pertain to our present life to us lis at this thib tiu tin a time and in our present circumstances I 1 am anxious thal that the people should fully understand the vital importance of maintaining their heir present lives to make them useful hence benci I 1 speak much in this tills strain there is great credit due dub the female portion or of our community for the thid ihl gs they try to teach their children chiT dren still I 1 would like fosee a closer application in in giving their daughters a good sound practical moral education I 1 feel gratl fied when I 1 loo the congregation and ved eee many matly of atie in others mothers wearing dres dresses es they have made themselves of wool wooi 1 I g grown roin in this territory and I 1 have bave n not t i seen yeii veli in any new country a better article of cloth than thian our bisters sisters make here it av 11 bear the inspection of the mo most moat t fastidious votaries vot aries of pride and c fashion in that class claig of goods it cannot be excell excelled fd great credit lo is due to this people for foi he the progress they have made we have not in our society an aristo aristocratic c at e circle whether a brother wet weary Tila L coon skin cap or a fine beaver hat is all the same to us it a person is a faithful servant of god we do not no object tordis coming to meeting though be he has only but a piece of buffalo skin to wear on his head we partake of oath dhe sacrament with him hall hail him in the street as a brother and a friend irim frim hiie rile I 1 with him converse with him meet with hi nim dim in in social parties and gret him as an equal I 1 also see brethren breth ren ten walk into meeting f in which ana nna daughters have made but suppose you had not the means for gating your wool carded nor the means for carding it yourselves could you ou have produced the excellent cloth you now wear you could not I 1 delight to ree pee the mother learn her daughters to be houie housekeepers keepers to be particular clean and neat to sew bew sp n and weave to make utter butter and cli cil cheese eese and I 1 have no objection to thein heln learning to cultivate flowers herbs and useful shrubs in the garden gardens 3 it is good for their belr health to rlee rice earl eari early in the morning and work in the soil sl an hour or two before break fa fat at t this practice ii especially beneficial to tl ose oae who have weak lungs and while you delight in rai ral raising flowers etc I 1 do not neglect to 0 o learn how bow to take care of the cream and liow how to make maxe of it good wholesome butter and of the milk good healthy cheese neither forget forge t your sewing sewing gy spinning and weaving and I 1 would no them hem neglect to learn music and would encourage them to read history and the scriptures to take up a newspaper geography and other publications and make themselves acquainted with tilie the manners and ani customs of distant kingdoms and nations with their laws religion geographical location on the face of the world their climate natural production the extent of their commerce and the nature of their political organization in fine let our boys ard girls ris be thoroughly tho instructed in every useful branch of physical and mental education let this education begin early teach little children the principles of order the little girl to put the broom in its right T pace place to arrange the stove furniture in the he t neatest possible way and everything in its own place teach them to lay away their clothing clotting neatly and where it can be foud fo fond ud and when they tear their frocks and aprons teach them how bow to mend tho the rent so neatly that the place cannot be seen at a short distance and instead of asking your husbands to buy them ribbons and frills learn them to make them of the material we can produce teach the little boys to lay away the garden hoe hee the spade etc where they will not be destroyed by rust lust and let them have access to tools that they may learn their use ule and develops dev elope their mechanical skill while young and see that they gather up the tools when they have done with them and depos t them in the proper place let both males and females encourage with avith n them mechanical ingenuity and seek constantly to understand the rodj they are inand in and what use to make of their existence it is unnecessary to send to england to france to the east indies to china or to any other country for a little crockery ware silk calico calic 0 muslin etc for we can make those articles here we need the machinery let us unite and ge betit tit last fall br A R RW wright night right brought brou jilt glit in an excellent piece of machinery for manufacturing flani flax it now belo beio bobr y er I 1 would like ike to see some man inapt manifest interest enough to take that md machinery chinery and put it to work thousands of 0 pounds pound gor of flax could be worked up by it this comin coming gFall fall yail and next winter mo who will do this I 1 know not this people are dilatory in some bings things IN wh t are many of them thinking about the thie kingdom of god sometime they want to play ilay pray and have faith falth just sufficient to keep in clift th path of the angel that i is s aping goin round to gatherum gat gather herup up the righteous and the rest of the time their minds are upon a gold mine or upon going to the states to buy goods and they see themselves behind a counter ah think they 4 wont I 1 look a gentlemanly looking man inin when I 1 am ni deal deai dealing out cut the tbt calico I 1 never could the ploren poorest A day I 1 eversal ever saw impy in my lire ilfe descend so low as to stand behind a counter taking j that thau class clas of men as a whole I 1 think they are of extremely small calibre women and can can deal out pins ping lind and needles and ribbons this is ia too trifling a bu business sineWs for men their business Is to organize the elements and draw draty from them the raw material in abundance and then kanuf ac ure urr it into those things which are calculated to make reake comfortable beautiful lovely healthy and happy kappy gods people our brethren calculate calate egit an the increase of at their estock stock and are keen to gather around them the riches of this life but they do not make judicious calculations how to dispose of bf those riches to the best advantage they wilt fill the whole country with stock of every kind but can see lio BO way ivay how it should be put to proper use the milr mer chant calculates that he wiil wili make fifty ar or a hundred thousand dollars in so many year yearb but if you ask hin hial what he is aglid to rop pop or with i it t he is astonished at the question quentio n for he be never thought of that all he thought of was piling up the riches did you ever think it was your youl privilege to place 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